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This Elizabethan morality play interweaves the biblical story of Jonah and Nineveh with the corrupt court of King Rasni, an unjust moneylender and his victims, and comic scenes of common vices. The prophet Hosea serves as an onstage chorus applying its lessons to contemporary England; Jonah’s warning finally moves Nineveh’s sinners to repent.
Prince Edward seeks to win Margaret, the Fair Maid of Fressingfield, with the help of Friar Bacon, but his friend Earl Lacy falls in love with her. Their romance resolves alongside Friar Bacon’s magical feats: he and Friar Bungay attempt to create a protective talking brazen head, but their servant Miles fails to wake Bacon before it breaks. Witnessing the destructive effects of magic, Bacon renounces it.
Selimus plots against his father Bajazet to seize the Ottoman crown, then wages a succession struggle against his brothers. Through deception, poisoning and murder, he eradicates his family rivals and claims the throne.
This Elizabethan morality play interweaves the biblical story of Jonah and Nineveh with the corrupt court of King Rasni, an unjust moneylender and his victims, and comic scenes of common vices. The prophet Hosea serves as an onstage chorus applying its lessons to contemporary England; Jonah’s warning finally moves Nineveh’s sinners to repent.
Prince Edward seeks to win Margaret, the Fair Maid of Fressingfield, with the help of Friar Bacon, but his friend Earl Lacy falls in love with her. Their romance resolves alongside Friar Bacon’s magical feats: he and Friar Bungay attempt to create a protective talking brazen head, but their servant Miles fails to wake Bacon before it breaks. Witnessing the destructive effects of magic, Bacon renounces it.
Selimus plots against his father Bajazet to seize the Ottoman crown, then wages a succession struggle against his brothers. Through deception, poisoning and murder, he eradicates his family rivals and claims the throne.